Lyra Pramuk announces new album, ‘Hymnal’, shares ‘Rewild’: Listen

Lyra Pramuk will release ‘Hymnal’, her first album in four years, this June. Listen to lead single ‘Rewild’ below.

The Berlin-based American multidisciplinary artist presents her new 14-track album, which blends strings, vocals and other organic instruments with electronic production kit, as a mechanism for listeners to unlock new worldviews and philosophies.

“Music has been a sacred practice throughout human history”, Pramuk said in a press statement about the album. “Before industry and long before social media, music used to be a socially connective ritual between humans, animals, and the Earth… It has the potential to bring us together in times of crisis, to enable a great depth of emotional processing, and give an innate healing power; something much-needed at this moment in history.”

She continued: “The West dominates the Earth with protocols of extraction, surveillance, and exploitation. I do not adhere to this philosophy. This work represents an attempt to articulate my own belief system… Being trans has led me to question everything about society to keep the good bits, and imagine a better, more holistic reality”.

‘Hymnal’ is out on 13th June as a joint release by Pramuk’s own pop.soil label !K7 records’ sublabel 7K!. It follows Pramuk’s debut LP, 2020’s ‘Fountain‘, and its 2021 remix complement, ‘Delta‘. She also released the ‘Vega‘ single earlier this year to launch pop.soil and has previously collaborated with Courtesy and Caterina Barberi. 

Revisit’s Lyra’s 2021 contribution to the Selections series, in which she highlighted music by Ata Kak, Loraine James, Cucina Povera and more. 

Check out ‘Hymnal’ on Bandcamp, and listen to ‘Rewild’ below.